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Dredged up in thirty fathoms, off the east coast of Patagonia. 



The general colour of the exterior is a light ochre. The disk has 

 a brownish salmon tint, and the tentacles are a pale shade of the 

 same, or slightly purplish. 



ACTINIA PAPAVER. (Drayton.) 



A. extus levis; depressa, medio 2J" crassa, infra supraque valde dilatata 

 (3"); basis margine leviter crenulato, margine superno non tuber cu- 

 lato, vix undulato ; tentaculis numerosis, fere |" longis, validis, subu- 

 latis, 3-seriatis; ore f" oblongo, prominente. 



Animal, with the exterior smooth ; body depressed, 2J inches thick at 

 middle, much dilated above and below (3 inches in breadth); 

 margin of base faintly crenulate, upper margin not tuberculate, 

 scarcely undulate; tentacles numerous, nearly | of an inch long, 

 stout, subulate, in 3 series ; mouth | of an inch long, prominent. 



Plate 4, fig. 29, animal natural size. 



From the rocks exposed to the surf, Wollongong, Illawarra, New 

 South Wales. Exp. Exp. 



This species is found most abundant on rocks exposed to the surf, 

 a little above low-water mark ; they are, therefore, for a short time 

 exposed out of water, at the receding of the waves, until the tide 

 covers them again. The colour of the body is a rich brownish- 

 purple, with regular longitudinal lines of a darker purple, crossed by 

 finer transverse lines ; tentacles red, the inner darkest ; disk and sides 

 of mouth a deep brownish-purple ; mouth within, dark orange. 



Another variety of this species was seen with a brownish-green body 

 and disk, and tentacles of the same colour, but paler. J. DRAYTON. 



ACTINIA PLUVIA. (Dray ton.) 



A. minute tuberculata, medio (2J") crassa, infra supraque valde dila- 

 tata (3J"), basis margine undulata, margine superno non tuberculata; 

 tentaculis subconfertis, 3-seriatis, 6'" longis, validis, subulatis; disco 

 valde radiato; ore prominulo, 6-8'" oblongo. 



